game crashes...need help please!

[knight_of_the_night]

I'm playing an assassin for the first time and I came across something rather annoying. While trying to poison my weapon the game crashes to the desktop. I've tried re-installing the game but it didn't help. I didn't see anything similar when I searched. Hopefully someone here can help me out with this.

I've got the latest patch, and the baldurdash fixes. I'm also running:
ascension v1.4.14
hell trials v213
dungeon be gone v1.2
Kelsey v15 SOA and TOB
NPC flirt v1.9
redemption v1.0.2
ease of use v16
item upgrade v25
sola v94
spell50 v5
valen v35

I really want to try out my assassin and his poison abilities! Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[TheCrimsomBlade]

Welcome to the Forum knight_of_the_night

Did you set your Configuration for the game

Cache size set to 450.

frame rate set to 32.

set search nodes to 40,000.

game resolution need to be set to 800x600 if you game keeps crashing.

set color depth to 32bit.

check your hardware setting in BG config and make sure General,Graphics and sound are set to the proper setting sometimes the sound card may be to powerful for the game and this can cause it to crash also if you lower this setting it can stop the crashes.

try these settings above they help when your using the higher power Computers and windows XP can cause the game to crash for no reason also. I took my XP off all my computers and use 98SE and don't have any problem any more with any game. I own more than 250 PC Games including every RPG on the market or all made in the past 7 to 8 years.

[ 04-29-2003, 11:30 PM: Message edited by: TheCrimsomBlade ]

[Cerek the Barbaric]

I'm having a similar problem. I'm currently starting my 3rd party through BG2. Finally playing the infamouse Kensai that will dual to Mage. I have Ease of Use and Tactics Mod's installed and I'm getting a CRASH every, single time I try to play the game.

My party has JUST gone to the Slums, met Nalia and Lord Jierdan and started to leave to go help Nalia (my PC is a female and feels the need to respond to Nalia's urgency). When I leave the Copper Coronet, it turns dark and I get attacked by the Weimer Random Party That Always Attacks After Dark. I also refused to pay the $5,000 gp for the magic license. That's a bit of a problem since I currently have Jaheira, Anomen, AND Kelsey in the party.

At first, the game would crash as soon as the second round of combat began after the Cowled Wizards showed up. I figured I was just overloading the PC since there were 3 parties with spellcasters all firing spells and effects at the same time. So I tried just using hack-n-slash on Weimer's Attacking Party. That worked once (and I didn't take time to Save the game - aaaargh). But the game STILL crashed as soon as I started attacking the Cowled Wizards (I set up an ambush and cast a spell to attract them).

So, is it a game problem or is my PC just not able to handle the strain? I am running XP with a 40gb hard drive, but I only have 9gb of memory free...so maybe I am just overloading my system.

I will check to make sure the settings listed above haven't been changed, but I would appreciate any suggestions anybody else has.

BTW, my SECOND party PC is an assassin, and i had NO TROUBLE with the game crashing when I tried to poison his weapons. It worked great! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]